Re: Avoiding deadlock in iSCSI

[Jeff Fellin <jkf@research.bell-labs.com>]

I agree with John's conclusion. Julian's proposed rules for connections
deals eith the deadlock issues raised by Costa, and should be enough for
concensus on this issue.

	Jeff Fellin
	Bell Labs
	
> Subject: Avoiding deadlock in iSCSI
> To: <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
> From: "John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM" <hufferd@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:02:06 -0700
> Sender: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu
> 
> Folks,
> We seem to be going around and around on this.
> 
> Julian, David Robinson, and myself (I hope among others) seem to think that
> with Asymmetric, and a simple ordering rule, everything works with TCP/IP
> (because of what TCP/IP itself does).  There maybe some buffer management
> in the SCSI "application" (this is the normal stuff that SCSI does), but it
> is not an iSCSI/TCP issue.
> 
> Can we agree on that for the Asymmetric case?
> 
> For the Symmetric case, Julian suggested a few more "minor" rules, and he
> claims that then it can work as deadlock free as the above Asymmetric case.
> 
> Can we agree on that for the Symmetric case?
> 
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> John L. Hufferd
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